Founding Engineer

Must have:

• 5+ years building backend systems in modern Python for production-critical workloads, and still hands-on today — not someone who's moved into pure management

• Experience integrating enterprise systems you didn't own and couldn't change (ERP, WMS, PIM, EDI, or other legacy enterprise systems) — missing sandboxes, weak documentation, a vendor between you and the API

• Product engineering experience, not just integrations or pipelines — you've built core or user-facing product too

• Strong SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL Server, or Oracle) and comfort with messy, real-world data

• Strong system design and distributed systems knowledge — you can design components and backend patterns that scale without scaling the team linearly, and defend those choices to a client's architects

• Real client exposure — you've run technical conversations with enterprise customers, not just internal stakeholders, and can run a kickoff or handle a security questionnaire in French

• Some leadership history — led a small team, a squad, or been the technical anchor others were hired around; wants to build and lead a team while still writing code

• Appetite to contribute across the product, not just integrations — opinions about where Volta should go in France, and the drive to go build them

• Fluent French and English, with excellent technical communication in both

• High autonomy and ownership — comfortable reporting to a CTO based in another country, escalating early rather than absorbing problems silently, and juggling presales, delivery, and hiring without dropping delivery

Nice to have:

• Experience in a Tech or startup environment

• ERP integration experience specifically

• Familiarity with wholesale, distribution, or order management environments

• Consulting or enterprise integration background

• Experience as a first hire in a country, or in an office remote from HQ

• Has hired and onboarded engineers before

• A builder mentality — defaults to shipping over delegating, and thrives on the adaptability a fast-moving startup demands